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Central followup column

Central followup column: DevNet published this month's column, about the initial reactions to the Central announcement... Jonathan's got the pro, and I've got the con. Drop a comment here if you wish to wrassle out anything on these, thanks.... [JD on MX]

I'm really looking forward to seeing what Macromedia does with Central. I clearly see real value in a cross platform solution for a "beyond the browser" solution similar to what Sherlock and Watson provide on the Mac.

We had this before with the Marimba platform, i.e. Castanet and Bongo, but it was a little ahead of its time and based too much on being a way to simply deliver fat clients to the desktop. Now, I see the focus on tying into network based services as being much more compelling.